New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced a three-year income tax holiday for start-ups and exemption of capital gains tax for venture capital investments in them, as part of a…
Hyderabad, Jan 16 (IANS) Actress-turned-politician Jayasudha on Saturday quit the Congress party and joined the Telugu Desam Party. She called on TDP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in Vijayawada and formally…
Panaji, Jan 16 (IANS) A team of US consular officials arrived in Goa on Saturday to enquire into the circumstances which led to the death of a 30-year-old US national in a marshy paddy field…
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Jan 16 (IANS) Almost 30 years after late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi visited Dharavi, once ranked as Asia’s biggest slum, his son and Congress vice president…
CN01 . (North Korea ) , 05/ 01 / 2016.- Photo courtesy today , Tuesday January 5, 2016 , North Korean leader Kim Jong -un ( c ) observing a competition of military ordnance in…
Patna, Jan 16 (IANS) A man was blinded and badly beaten up allegedly by his rivals in a Bihar village in a fight for supremacy, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday night…
New Delhi: SoftBank Chairman and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son and President Nikesh Arora during the opening session of launch of “Start Up India“ in New Delhi on Jan 16, 2016. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi,…
Mumbai: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi addresses management students of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) in Mumbai, on Jan 16, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Jan 16 (IANS) Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks during the opening session of the launch of “Start Up India“ in New Delhi on Jan 16, 2016. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) Finance Minister…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that he will interact with start-up entrepreneurs after the launch of the government’s “Start-Up India” initiative….
Washington, Jan 16 (IANS) India and the US have agreed to work on a road show of potential long-term investors having an interest in India’s infrastructure sector as also promote cooperation in railway safety and…
United Nations, Jan. 15 (IANS) It is 2016 and a native of Hyderabad, Syed Akbaruddin, is India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. But it is still 1948 for an amnesiac Pakistan. Gaining no traction…
Washington, Jan 16 (IANS/EFE) The US retail giant Walmart Stores, Inc. on Friday announced plans to close 269 stores and lay off 16,000 employees, 6,000 of them outside the US. In a news release, the…
Washington, Jan 16 (IANS) Indian-American professor Dr. Rakesh K. Jain and 16 other scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and innovators will receive the National Medals of Science and Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama next Friday….
EFE / Rodong Sinmun / EDITORIAL USE ONLY / NO SALES / it PROHIBITED IN SOUTH KOREA Seoul, Jan 16 (AP) North Korea said it could stop its nuclear tests in exchange for signing a…
Taipei, Jan 16 (AFP) Polls opened in Taiwan today with the island expected to elect its first female president in a historic vote likely to end eight years of closer China ties. The boisterous democracy…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (PTI) Prashant Kishore, the successful election strategist of Narendra Modi in 2014 Lok Sabha polls who later worked for Nitish Kumar in Bihar assembly elections, is likely to help Congress plot…
Varese (Italy), Jan 15 (IANS/AKI) Police on Friday arrested a man suspected of murdering a young woman in the northern Italian city of Varese 29 years ago. The man is a former classmate of 19-year-old…
(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) It was one of those rare wintery nights last week when a friend walked in, rubbing his hands vigorously to keep warm. He kept looking over his shoulders nervously…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) Calling it a national shame that the country continues to be unaware about the whereabouts of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday demanded explanations regarding…